Diabetes News Hound

Arizona Cardinals’ safety Matt Ware is being honored as the 2010 Ed Block Courage Award winner. (more…)

Recently Nat Strand and Kat Chang won the Amazing Race reality television competition. Not only did the become the first all-female team to with the race, which is in its 17^th season, Nat became the first Type 1 diabetic to win the extremely stressful competition (more…)

There were certainly a number of compelling diabetes-related story lines in 2010, both on the research front and in pop culture. In today’s edition of Diabetes News Hound, we take a look at some of the year’s top Type 1 diabetes-related stories. (more…)

Comedian Tracy Morgan, who stars on the sitcom 30 Rock, is recovering from a kidney transplant. Morgan was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes in 1996 (more…)

…. And on the lighter side of the news… I recently came across two diabetes-themed rap videos on YouTube. The first video, which I first saw when reading an article by Diabetes Health focusing on diabetes and YouTube, contains all accurate educational information about Type 1 diabetes. (more…)

The Amazing Race, the reality television show that takes contestants on a world-wide journey competing on various unusual tasks, but one of the winners of the recently-completed 17^th season had an extra foe to contend with: diabetes. (more…)

Ron Santo, the one-time third baseman and broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs baseball team, died late last week from complications of liver cancer. Santo, a Type 1 diabetic, helped raise tens of millions of dollars over his lifetime for diabetes research. (more…)

Country music artist George Canyon, and a finalist on Nashville Star, announced that he will release the single “I Believe in Angels” in the U.S. and donate a portion of each download of the song during the month of November to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (more…)